I know I'm going to open a can of worms here but hey that's what I do. I do not believe that certain modifiers even do anything in game. Certain people will claim that the modifiers do something and always have but really have no information to back themselves up either way. If a modifier used to do three things even if it does one thing others say at least it is doing one. However, I say if it used to do three it needs to be boosted.
I keep detailed records. I have one point of increased research. For breakthroughs and explore orders I have effectively increased by one point in one area in 51 turns. It means it is totally useless in game terms for these two things. However, for research races it does mean something in Draco not my race. I only receive the 5 percent gain. In Andromeda, it meant something for everyone. This means it has been reduced to effectively zero accept for a minor effect every 2+ years for both my empires.
My race is a colonizer. However, in Draco colonization installations have been so inflated that a race that increases it production is not hampered by having to build them and can keep pace with me. Also, a research race gains the technology so fast it has no real wait time. A research race starting on a cold world with no negatives is almost just as effective as mine but gains the research bonus as well.
How do I know this, I keep detailed records on different set up on large spreadsheets? There is no game balance anymore. A research race will always outpace other worlds if it starts on a cold world near asteroid belts or iron rich worlds. This is not conjecture it is because of the data.
It would be nice to throw around opinions, but the data is for sure.

Can anyone report if Draco has any Neutral worlds?
If they exist, I wonder if they will be as lame as in Andromeda or if Draco has real treasures. In short is it worth my time to do PMAP's on world/moons that are not good candidates for colonizing just to find neutral worlds?

INST: Deep Core Surveyor
Deep Core Surveyor: Deep Core Surveyors are deep tunneling units that search the core of a planet for
additional resources. They operate autonomously and may discover new veins of any of a
variety of valuable resources. Construction of multiple Deep Core Surveyors can be quite
useful, but the benefits of building more than one drop off in a nonlinear fashion. Deep
Core Surveyor are energy hogs, consuming an impressive 100,000 Power per turn.
Production requirements: 250,000 Advanced Construction Materials
Consumes: 100,000 Power
Requires: 3rd Generation Planetary Engineering as a prerequisite technology
Requires: 1st Generation Terraforming as a prerequisite technology

Weathered the storm (80% of the county lost power, and many still don't have any, but we lucked out--whew). Even so, it's been a rather hectic week. I wouldn't expect results to be ready to send out any time soon--maaaaybe by 0-dark-thirty tonight, or more likely tomorrow morning.
edit: It turned out to be a super smooth run--always a good thing. Turns going out now!

Sandy Sheep looks asks Master Spy Baa what are the shipyards used for?
To deliver Children's Balloons for the orphans in Spain.
Master Spy waves to the sheep on his right and left of Libya.
Is it true that we will be trying to match shipyards with the other sheep, Sandy asked while watching Master Spy Baa have to use both his legs and Sandy's legs to count all the sheep?
Of course not, they are not building new shipyards those are balloon factories, Master Spy Baa said while distracting her while making Balloon animals.
We'll this is Sandy sheep signing off and reminding people to be nice to sheep even those sheep in Norway.
Austria has declared war on Yugoslavia
France has declared war on Switzerland
Italy has declared war on Switzerland
Hungary has declared war on Yugoslavia
Finland has declared war on Norway
Iraq has declared war on Trans-Jordan

The hot times has start and the first shoes have dropped..
Austria has declared war on Yugoslavia
France has declared war on Switzerland
Italy has declared war on Switzerland
Hungary has declared war on Yugoslavia

The Fremen replied to Jemanari Public Relations's topic in Galactic Forum

That’s not very practical. How many HW’s mirror conditions on asteroid belts? I would say zero and yet that’s where all players will find the very highest concentration of the most critical resources needed.